Absent from the Obama Administration’s last $50 billion dollar economic-stimulus package was talk about how many new and green jobs this package would generate.
Green technology forecasted to create jobs.
(Favstocks.com) — More than half of the 1,300 patents filed by General Motors Co. in 2009 are green innovations, evidence of the rapid development by GM researchers and engineers. A study of the patent activity of the top-15 global automakers released by the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc firm Ocean Tomo, LLC highlighted GM’s leadership in […]
(Crain’s) — An effort in Springfield to ensure Illinois wind power developers get a cut of the 20-year contracts the state is preparing to offer for electricity generated by wind farms is dead. Talks between Exelon Corp., parent of Commonwealth Edison Co., and wind power developers ended last week without an agreement to lift Exelon’s opposition to setting […]
Communities of color need to take action.